And in this confidence was I minded the other time to have come unto you, that ye might have had yet one pleasure more,

I call God for a record unto my soul, that for to favor you withal, I came not any more unto Corinth.

why shall not the ministration of the spirit be much more glorious?

For if the ministering of condemnation be glorious: much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

Then if that which is destroyed was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth be glorious.

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh. Insomuch that though we have known Christ after the flesh, now henceforth know we him so no more.

And not with his coming only: but also with the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you. For he told us your desire, your mourning, your fervent mind to me ward: So that I now rejoice the more.

Therefore we are comforted, because ye are comforted: yea and exceedingly the more joyed we, for the joy that Titus had: because his spirit was refreshed of you all.

And now is his inward affection more abundant toward you, when he remembereth the obedience of every one of you: how with fear and trembling ye received him.

agreeing to that which is written, "He that gathered much had never the more abundance, and he that gathered little, had nevertheless."

We have sent with them a brother of ours, whom we have oft times proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent. The great confidence which I have in you

And though I should boast myself somewhat more of our authority which the Lord hath given us to edify and not to destroy you, it should not be to my shame.

and we boast not ourselves out of measure in other men's labors. Yea, and we hope, when your faith is increased among you, to be magnified according to our measure more largely;

They are the ministers of Christ - I speak as a fool - I am more: In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prison more plenteously,

I will very gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your souls: though the more I love you, the less I am loved again.